David Brainard Receives Edgar D. Tiller Award From Optical Society

David H. Brainard, Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences and RRL Professor of Psychology, has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Edgar D. Tiller Award from The Optical Society (OSA). Brainard is honored for his groundbreaking experimental and theoretical contributions to our understanding of how the visual system resolves the ambiguities inherent in sensory signals to produce a stable percept of object color.

Brainard is an eminent cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on human vision, visual neuroscience, and computational modeling of visual processing. Recently, he has applied the underlying principles of color constancy to how the visual system resolves ambiguity in the visual pathway, and has developed a computational model.

He is a Fellow of the Optical Society and the Association for Psychological Science, and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. He is director of Penn’s Vision Research Center.

Established in 1953, the Tillyer Award is presented to an individual who has performed distinguished work in the field of vision, including but not limited to the optics, physiology, anatomy, or psychology of the visual system. It honors Edgar D. Tillyer’s important contributions to the advancement of better vision and the optical sciences, and is endowed by the American Optical Company and the Chope Family Bypass Trust.

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